Long-range rockets fired from Gaza are Iranian: Israel army - Page 2

Fascist Canuck · #11 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 05:00 AM

Hmmm, most curious. Look what I found:

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Monday, March 03, 2008
Hamas Claims Victory- Says US Weapons Used in Fighting IDF

Hamas officials claimed they were using US made weapons in their "victory" over Israel.
The rocket attacks into Israel resumed after the IDF withdrew from Gaza today.

The Jerusalem Post reported:

According to Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip, most of the gunmen who have been fighting the IDF over the past few days are members of Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin Kassam.

"At least 2,000 Hamas gunmen have been deployed in the northern Gaza Strip to take part in the fighting," the sources told The Jerusalem Post.

The sources estimated that Izaddin Kassam has at least 15,000 members divided into four brigades in the Gaza Strip.

They added that the Hamas gunmen were using many American-made arms seized from the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority security forces in June.

Hamas says it captured thousands of M-16 and Kalashnikov rifles, and large supplies of ammunition during its weeklong conquest of Gaza. Hamas is also believed to have acquired weapons capable of penetrating armor and stockpiles of rocket-propelled grenades.

A senior Hamas official said Sunday that his movement had smuggled hundreds of rockets and mortars and tons of explosives into the Gaza Strip from Egypt in the past few months.

World Net Daily reported that Hamas was once again firing on Israelis from civilian homes.

MTC sees the BBC's reporting on the crisis as business as usual against Israel.

sunnyside · #12 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by justabubba

and let's not fail to recognize that the weapons from both sources are used to engage in terrorist acts against civilians

I'm sure you hear this a lot, but people inability to tell the difference on issues like this makes me sick. Isreal isn't trying to take out swaths of civilians, they are trying to hit militants who are mingled with civilians and they are doing so with weapons that lack the ability to fly inside of someones car and then stab them.

Israel is being reserved in the matter. Can you not respect that fact that they are taking continual rocket fire and casulaties that they could stop if they simply disregarded civilian casualties? They'd simply have to bring out the big guns Maybe buy a B-52 or two off of the US. Once you level enough area you're bound to catch the launchers. What do you think Hamas would do if it had the ability to inflict mass casualties on the Israelis?

Fascist Canuck · #13 (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by sunnyside

I'm sure you hear this a lot, but people inability to tell the difference on issues like this makes me sick. Isreal isn't trying to take out swaths of civilians, they are trying to hit militants who are mingled with civilians and they are doing so with weapons that lack the ability to fly inside of someones car and then stab them.

Israel is being reserved in the matter. Can you not respect that fact that they are taking continual rocket fire and casulaties that they could stop if they simply disregarded civilian casualties? They'd simply have to bring out the big guns Maybe buy a B-52 or two off of the US. Once you level enough area you're bound to catch the launchers. What do you think Hamas would do if it had the ability to inflict mass casualties on the Israelis?

*ROTFLMAO @ Israel ever bothering with B-52s* Their F-15E Eagles would do far, far more damage.

SenaxFlatulus · #14 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by EiregoSod

where does Israel get the weapons to kill 200 Palestinians in the past week?

the USA?

None of the Palestinians would be in this mess if it weren't for your government's ideological misstep back in 1946. Climb down off your soap box and stop trying to assess blame elsewhere.

justabubba · #15 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by SenaxFlatulus

None of the Palestinians would be in this mess if it weren't for your government's ideological misstep back in 1946. Climb down off your soap box and stop trying to assess blame elsewhere.

that oh so infrequent occasion when i can say i am in agreement with the feathered farter

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